Bruker's Advanced Supercon Business Signs Cooperation Agreement with IFW Dresden for Further Development of MgB2 Superconducting
02 April 2008 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
The Advanced Supercon business unit of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ:
BRKR) announced today that it has signed a formal cooperation
agreement with the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials
Research in Dresden, Germany (IFW Dresden) to jointly further
develop Magnesium Diboride (MgB2) superconducting wire. In the
framework of this cooperation agreement, IFW Dresden will
contribute existing know-how and future R&D results in MgB2
powder and conductor materials. Bruker�s Advanced Supercon business
will contribute its broad experience and large-scale manufacturing
capacity for all types of technical superconductors, including
industrial scale-up, production, quality assurance and
commercialization, particularly for MRI and energy research magnet
applications. The expanded collaboration between the Advanced
Supercon business and IFW Dresden has the dual goals to further
increase MgB2 wire critical currents and to produce a first 1
kilometer long wire segment within a year. Future collaboration
plans include large scale MgB2 wire production and collaboration
with magnet manufacturers for next-generation MRI magnets, as well
as for high-energy physics and fusion research magnets. Dr.
Burkhard Prause, Managing Director of the Advanced Supercon
business, commented: �IFW Dresden is a performance leader in the
development of MgB2 wire, and we have been collaborating with IFW
Dresden for several years already. Our development results have
reached the point where we decided to strengthen and expand our
ongoing joint efforts to further develop MgB2 wire towards higher
performance specifications and towards scaled-up industrial
production. We believe that in the future there could be a large
potential market for MgB2 wire in �dry� MRI and energy research
magnets operating without liquid helium at temperatures greater
than 10 degrees Kelvin.� Professor Ludwig Schultz, the Scientific
Director�of�the IFW Dresden, added: "Since the discovery of
superconductivity in MgB2 in 2001 the IFW Dresden has developed new
materials preparation routes based on mechanical alloying, which
enable the synthesis of highly reactive MgB2 nanopowders with
strongly improved superconducting properties. These powders proved
to be excellent precursors for MgB2 powder-in-tube wires and last
year we were able to set new records in their high magnetic field
current capability. We are very pleased�that in cooperation with
Bruker�s Advanced Supercon Business our successful research results
will now be transferred towards industrial MgB2 wire production and
we are convinced that the superconducting properties of MgB2 can
still be significantly improved towards a new technical
Medium-Temperature Superconductor (MTS) with wide industrial
applicability." ABOUT THE BRUKER ADVANCED SUPERCON BUSINESS Bruker
Corporation has recently become the parent company of the entire
Bruker group of companies. Bruker Corporation now operates in two
business segments, the Life Science and Analytical systems segment,
and the Advanced Supercon segment. The Advanced Supercon business
is a global leader in the development and industrial production of
low-temperature superconducting (LTS) wires used primarily in
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR),
Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FTMS), High-Energy Physics
(HEP) and nuclear fusion research magnet applications. This
business also develops and manufactures high-temperature
superconductors (HTS) and HTS devices, based on its two
complementary, advanced HTS technology platforms for BSSCO and YBCO
conductors. HTS conductors and components made by the Advanced
Supercon business are used in a wide range of HTS devices such as
motors, generators, cables, fault current limiters, current leads,
and transformers. For more information on the business, please
visit www.advancedsupercon.com
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